The Assassination Market – Internet’s new low

“After about a week of muttering ‘they all must die’ under my breath every time I opened a newspaper or turned on the television, I decided something had to be done. This is my contribution to the cause.”

So if the internet wasn’t bad enough already, they now have a website where you can anonymously put a price on someone’s head. Payment via Bitcoin makes the whole transaction untraceable. Very interesting article from Forbes covers all the gritty details. Who’s at the top of the list of people to be taken out (which includes an NSA director and the president himself)? Ben Bernanke.